5.3.1 Searching for Currency

A Search pane is provided to search for currencies by Name, Currency (by ISO currency code), Status, or Reporting Currency.

To search the currency, follow these steps:

1. Enter the search criteria and click Search.
2. Click the Reset to remove the search criteria you have specified and refresh the window.
3. The search results are displayed in a tabular format containing all of the currencies that meet to search criteria. The Currency summary pane offers several icons as follows to perform different functions when a currency is selected.
   • Add: Click Add to begin the process of adding a new currency. The Add icon is disabled if any rows in the pane are selected.
   • Edit: Select a single row out of the pane to enable the Edit. Click the Edit icon to modify an existing currency. The Edit icon is only enabled when a single currency has been selected.

     You can control the number of rows to display on the page by selecting the Pagination Options icon from the action bar.

   • Delete: Select one or more rows out of the pane to enable the Delete icon. Click the Delete icon to delete the currency or currencies you have selected.
   • Check Dependencies: Select a currency and then click the Check Dependencies icon to generate a report on all rules that utilize your selected currency.

     The Check Dependencies icon is only enabled when a single currency has been selected.

4. The Currencies window contains all of the currencies that meet the search criteria. The Currencies Summary page has several icons to perform different functions when a currency is selected.

   To select a currency, select the check box in the first column of the pane. More than one currency can be selected at a time but this will cause some of the icons to become disabled. Select a check box a second time deselects the currency.

   Select or deselect all of the currencies in the Summary page by selecting the check box in the upper left-hand corner of the Summary page directly to the left of the Code column header.

   The following list provides the currency details based on the search criteria:

   • Code: For seeded currencies, these are ISO Currency Codes. For user-defined currencies, these can be any pure character string (no numbers) up to a length of 3 characters.
   • Currency Name: For seeded currencies, these are ISO Currency Codes. For user-defined currencies, these can be any string up to a length of 40 characters.
   • Reference Interest Rate Code: Reference Interest Rate Code is the Interest Rate Code with which currency is associated with forecasting purposes. Define multiple yield curves each of which has the same Reference Currency, but a currency can only have one Reference Interest Rate Code.
   • Reporting Currency: A reporting currency is an active currency to which balances in other currencies can be consolidated to facilitate reporting. Balances in reporting currencies can be, in turn, consolidated to the functional currency. For example, an American multinational bank might consolidate its holdings in Asian currencies to the Japanese yen (Reporting Currency) and its balances in European currencies to the Euro (Reporting Currency) after which it might consolidate these reporting currencies to the U.S. dollar (Functional Currency).
   • Status: The status of any currency can be either Active or Inactive. You must Activate a currency before doing the following:

     Define that currency as a Reference Currency for a yield curve (For more information, see the Reference Currency section in the Interest Rates Details window.)

     Enter Exchange Rate data for a currency (For more information, see the Currency Rates section.)

     Define Forecast Rates for that currency within OFS ALM (For more information, see the Forecast Rates section).